Space
Access '11, the latest of the annual meetings
of the Space
Access Society, took place this year during
April 8-10 in Phoenix, Arizona. This page provides
various resources related to the meeting including
links to the entries posted at Space
Transport News. Several other blogs are also
linked.

Henry Vanderbilt organized
the meeting and is doing a great job as always.
Henry discussed the Space Access Society, the annual
meeting, and progress in private space vehicle development
in an interview
on The Space Show in March.

SpaceX shines - For the first time, a representative
of SpaceX
gave a presentation at the meeting. Just a couple
of days before the start of the conference, Elon Musk
had given the press conference about their plan to
develop the Falcon Heavy was laid out. On top of the
successful flights of the Falcon 9 and Dragon since
SA'10, there was a sense that SpaceX was on a roll
and

No major announcements of new projects or
accomplishments came out durign the meeting. Mostly
a sense of steady progress by the various teams working
on suborbital spaceflight systems.